Ship with Confidence: Metric-Driven Canary Rollouts

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This talk will be held in English. / Dieser Vortrag wird auf Englisch gehalten.

Canary deployments reduce blast radius - but without automated decision gates, someone still has to watch dashboards and make the call. That's slow, stressful, and doesn't scale.

In this talk, we build a metric-driven canary rollout pipeline on Kubernetes using Argo Rollouts and a queryable observability platform.

We cover incremental traffic shifting, automatic SLI collection, and fully automated promotion or rollback. Concepts apply regardless of your observability stack. You'll leave with a practical blueprint and a realistic picture of what it takes to trust automation with production promotion decisions.

  • Basic Kubernetes knowledge (Deployments, Services).
  • Familiarity with canary or blue/green deployment concepts is helpful but not required.
  • Some exposure to an observability platform (metrics, dashboards) will help follow the examples.
  • No prior Argo Rollouts experience needed.

  • Benefits of Canary Rollouts compared to traditional rolling releases
  • Configure metric-driven canary rollouts with Argo Rollouts
  • Define SLIs and translate them into automated promotion and rollback conditions
Max Schmidt Max Schmidt is a Cloud Consultant specializing in Infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, and observability. Bringing hands-on experience, building scalable Kubernetes- and Terraform-based platforms, and delivering secure, compliant monitoring solutions with Dynatrace, Grafana and OpenTelemetry across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.